Distinctive patterns of sonographic nerve enlargement in Charcot-Marie-Tooth type 1A and hereditary neuropathy with pressure palsies

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 126, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1413-1420

  Goedee, Stephan H ^a   Brekelmans, Geert J F ^b   van den Berg, Leonard H ^a   Visser, Leo H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b Microvida Laboratory for Medical Microbiology and Immunology   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Charcot Marie Tooth (CMT); Hereditary neuropathy with pressure palsies (HNPP); Nerve hypertrophy; Polyneuropathy; Sonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CHARCOT MARIE TOOTH TYPE 1A; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEREDITARY MOTOR SENSORY NEUROPATHY; HEREDITARY NEUROPATHY WITH PRESSURE PALSY; HUMAN; INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPATHY; PARALYSIS; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PERONEUS NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; ULNAR NERVE; YOUNG ADULT; ARTHROGRYPOSIS; CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEREDITARY SENSORY AND MOTOR NEUROPATHY; HYPERTROPHY; MEDIAN NERVE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHROGRYPOSIS; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEREDITARY SENSORY AND MOTOR NEUROPATHY; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVES; PERONEAL NERVE; PHENOTYPE; ULNAR NERVE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84930524351     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: 18728952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2014.08.026     Document Type: Article

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